I dont know about others, but Im waiting to drop 30-40 dollars on an AMAZING game, and even 60 bux if the game is seriously console quality Like a 300+ hour ravensword
I thought this forum had rules about insulting other posters, but I guess you're one of the favoured elite who they don't apply to. I've spent over $500 on games since I bought my iDevice this year, so take your "cheapskate" and your "rob" and stick them where your iPhone won't fit. But I'll tell you how much I'd have spent in that time if games were a minimum of $5 - zero. Chances are I wouldn't have bought an iPod at all, but if I had I'd almost certainly have jailbroken it, because there's no way in a million years I'd be risking $5 a time. $5 isn't much in itself, but $5s add up helluva fast when you're buying new games every day, like I do. In your world, there would only be four companies making iDevice games, and the charts would look exactly the same as the 360, PS3 and PC charts do - nothing but FIFA and The Sims and crappy cut-down versions of big-name franchises. Which would probably suit you fine, because you sound like the sort of pompous ass who sneers at quick, simple five-minute games of the sort the iDevices do so well, (and which are so enormously popular that Apple are having to build huge underground vaults to keep the money in) for being "immature" and lacking "depth", and wants to turn the iPod and iPhone into the PSP, which shifts software like an Alaskan ice-cream seller. Luckily, Apple know which side their bread is buttered, so we don't have people like you wrecking everything. We still get to play scores of different games every month for less than the price of one bloatware 360 "blockbuster", and indie developers get to make money creating fun, inventive and original games instead of just churning out formula crap. Long may they continue to ignore you.
Meh, don't worry you can go ahead and insult him right back From the way you spelt 'favoured' perhaps you're British yourself? I'd love to see a civilized exchange of British insults back and forth Edit: didn't even read your whole post before I quoted... looks like the exchange is already underway!
From what I've seen, that's sadly not true. Round here, if you're not one of the admins' pet posters you seem to get different rules applied to you...
It's so nice to have fans like you following my posts around. Oh and by the way who died and made you the boss of all opinions? All games should be at least $4.99? Well unfortunately for you and fortunately for everyone else, you neither own Apple nor have any say in it. Just ignore MidianGTX. See how he replied to my post for an example of why you should. Apparently some people have too much spare time, and they spend it by tracking down other people's posts and achieve great pleasure by either openly attacking their opinion or insulting them. Maybe the concept of opinion didn't really get wired into their heads.
No, I wouldn't pirate any game over $5. I've bought several games over $5. But if EVERY game was over $5 then I'd probably never have bought an iPod in the first place, and if I had the first thing I'd have done would have been jailbreak it.
You'll end up buying about 30 games instead of just 1 or 2 each month and therefore spending roughly the same amount of money. Or at least, that's what happens to most of us
He called me a cheapskate and a thief and said I needed a slap, which is somewhat excessive in response to a one-line post that didn't insult anyone. But don't worry - I know the score and I don't expect equal standards here.
No they apply to me, but I think you'll find on the scale of things "cheapskate" is on the slightly-less-harsh end of the list. Besides, I'm willing to bet a good deal of people thought it was a perfectly accurate word. Isn't that a good thing? You'd have saved a ton of money and you wouldn't be addicted to the App Store. I'm sure you've bought a game for another console before, do you consider them risks at $50 a go? Of course they are, you win some and you lose some. You're "risking" more than $5 every time you go to the cinema or eat at a restaurant. The total opposite if you ask me. In my world all these indie devs would be getting paid for doing what they enjoy. They'd have enough money to fund their next project and build us a quality game. We've heard several stories of developers simply giving in because they can't sell their game at a reasonable price and ended up losing money. As for sneering at quick, simple five-minute games... is it not obvious that those are the ones I'm trying to defend? The bigger companies like EA and Gameloft aren't in any trouble at all, they're getting their money, and since you're interested, the one single big name game I own on the iPhone is Driver by Gameloft, the other 200 or so are (as far as I know) all from indie developers. Yeah, if only the indie devs did get to make money. The whole point of this discussion is that they don't. Apple sure do know which side their bread is buttered, the side that means they make a ton of money without spending a dime, seemingly the same side yours is too. I'm sure they will continue to ignore me, and I'm sure over the coming months and years we'll see more and more great developers drop off the list.
Give it up Aurora, I'm not the only one around here who thinks you enter topics with the sole intent of either correcting someone or bashing a perfectly decent game.
Blinkerz, you got to think about the people trying to make a living out of this. Honestly these game prices are ridiculously low. Whens the last time a cookie has given you as much enjoyment as doodle jump (or most other decent 99 cent games)? You have a valid point with the 5 dollars adding up to a large sum, but relative to 'real life' (not the app store) five bucks is nothing. Once again you guys are arguing about different things. Blinkerz is comparing the money relative to the app store, while Midian is comparing it to 'real life'. I believe we had a discussion like this in the canabalt thread too.
I'm with him on this one. While Aurora uses good grammar and proper puncuation, he only bashed games/people. While he doesn't ALWAYS do it, I've seen him blow off a perfectly good game because it's $10. Said something about it being based off 'brand name' rather than gameplay, and then admitted he knew nothing about the 'brand name' game.
I totally understand what he means about it all adding up, I've been unpleasantly surprised more than once myself. I just don't think I'd suffer that much if I was forced to buy a few less games because the prices went up.
